#lust

She was wearing a beautiful dress with straps designed to be eaten off her shoulders. ↗

— Elise Valmorbida

#lust #spagetti-straps #beauty

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#enjoyment #grows #inflamed #lust #madder

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. ↗

— Thomas Overbury

#best #best part #boast #ground #his

Please. Put the gun down and we'll talk. A beautiful woman holding a small cannon plays hell with my concentration. Christovao (Chris) Santos, Sanctuary ↗

— Sharon K. Garner

#children-s-book-illustrators #farming-in-brazil #mercenaries #romance #romantic-suspense

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#avarice #cruelty #fluid #founded #lends

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. ↗

— John Wesley Powell

#art #attempting #beyond #cannot #canyon

Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots. ↗

— Sally Jo Martine

#contemporary-fairytale #fiber-art #grief #illustrated-fable #inspiration

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources. ↗

— Michael Rostovtzeff

#historical #illustrations #importance #independent #information

You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one. ↗

— Jacques Roumain

#cluster #easy #eat #grapes #once

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession. ↗

— John Howe

#been #before #books #ever #first